City of Joburg aims to move away from Eskom

JOHANNESBURG - The City of Johannesburg is among a number of municipalities that want to dump Eskom.

The country's largest metro plans to move away from the grid, at least partially, by approaching independent power producers.

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The country is currently being subjected to stage 5 blackouts, and this makes City Power’s network vulnerable to faults and unplanned outages.

Johannesburg MMC for Infrastructure Services and Environment Michael Sun said, "it’s quite a complicated process, we roped in the assistance of National Treasury to make sure we tick all the boxes….to get 500 megawatts will be a process."

"We will look at the first 100 megawatts to come from available supply. Then we will be able to shield our residents away from the impact."